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HA! PaV undoes irreducible complexity:
| Quote | ...Gophna said. Transferring a highly connected gene into a new host is like importing a fax machine into a remote village, he explained. “While the machine itself is potentially useful, it needs a number of additional connections to work – electricity, a phone line, a supply of paper, possibly a technician. If one of these is missing the machine becomes useless and ends up as junk."
PaV: I’m sorry. Doesn’t this sound like irreducible complexity? |
No dumbass. Electricity was invented prior to fax machines, and has uses independent of it. Phones do not depend on fax machines and have other uses. Paper is a independent invention, with functions not dependent on electricity, phones, or fax machines. The technician has his or her own life independent of all of those.
But yeah, take one away, and the fax machine might not work. You just proved why "take away a piece, lose function, therefore irreducibly complex, therefore can't have evolved, therefore God" is moronic.
Each component of something that looks complex, and that in the absence of each part ceases to function, has independent origins and utility of its own, sometimes dependent on a prior invention.
Well done. Lets see if PaV can get an own-goal hat trick by Fri.
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